“All great truths begin as blasphemies.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
Annajanska (1919)
1910s
Source: Annajanska the Bolshevik Empress
“Blasphemy is what an old mistake says of a newly discovered truth.”
The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
Context: Blasphemy is what an old mistake says of a newly discovered truth.
Blasphemy is what a withered last year's leaf says to a this year's bud.
Blasphemy is the bulwark of religious prejudice.
Blasphemy is the breastplate of the heartless.
And let me say now, that the crime of blasphemy, as set out in this statute, is impossible. No man can blaspheme a book. No man can commit blasphemy by telling his honest thought. No man can blaspheme a God, or a Holy Ghost, or a Son of God. The Infinite cannot be blasphemed.
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“Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.”
Antisthenes (-444–-365 BC) Greek philosopher
§ 12
From Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius
Anthony de Mello (1931–1987) Indian writer
Persecution
One Minute Wisdom (1989)
Context: A disciple was one day recalling how Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed were branded as rebels and heretics by their contemporaries.
Said the Master, Nobody can be said to have attained the pinnacle of Truth until a thousand sincere people have denounced him for blasphemy.
“I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value.”
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Louis Agassiz (1807–1873) Swiss naturalist
As quoted in A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (1991) edited by Alan L. Mackay, ( p. 2 http://books.google.com/books?id=KwESE88CGa8C&pg=PA2&lpg=PA2&dq=every+scientific+truth+goes+through+three+stages+first+people+say+it+conflicts+with+the+bible+next+they+say+it+had+been+discovered+before+lastly+they+say+they+always+believed+in+it&source=web&ots=DKSjGVklFG&sig=TGpJ6LSI9CE4s7Nu8wUiGAq3rgI)